Hub-securing device



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Y A. C. MORRIS.

HUB SEGUE-ING DEVICE.

` Patented June 29,1897.

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ALEXANDER C. MORRIS, OF MOAB, VIRGINIA.

HUB-SECURING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,278, dated June 29, 1897. Application filed Tune 27, 1896. Serial No. 597,254. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALEXANDER C. MORRIS, of Moab, in the county of Vashington and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hub-Securing Devices; and I do hereby declare that the fol- Iowingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specication.

This invention relates to certain ments in hnbsecuring devices.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved hub-securer so constructed and arranged that by means of a very simple arrangement of parts the wheel can be securely locked yet movably secured on the axle, so that there will be no danger of the same working off the axle, and at the same time provide such an automatic hub-securing device that improve- .the wheel can be easily removed for repairs or other purposes.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in combinations and parts more fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 are plan views of my device, in Fig. l the several parts being shown in an open position and in Fig. 2 in a closed porsition. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the axle, illustrating the same in an open position. Fig. 4 is an end view of the interior portion of the nut. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the axle or spindle provided with the upper cut-away portions to receive the locking crossbar to the pin. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view of the several parts in a closed or locked position. f

Like letters of reference mark the same parts throughout the diiferent views.

a indicates an ordinary axle having the reduced screw-threaded portion b at one end for the reception of the nut.

c is the cut-away portion in the outer surface of the axle or spindle, the purpose of which will be more fully hereinafter described.

d represents a suitable nut having the base e, form ed integral therewith and being screwthreaded, as shown at f, on its inner surface. On the interior of this nut and near its inner portion is formed an annulus or collar g, having a central opening g. Through the opening g' in this collar passes a pin h, having in its inner end a head or extension t', and interposed between the collar g and the head or extension i is a coiled spring j.

7c indicates a transverse opening extending through the outer surface of the nut. The pin h carries a cross-bar Z, and this pin is secured in the opening of said cross-bar in any suitable manner.

When the wheel is to be removed, the crossbar Z is raised from the transverse opening, thereby contracting the spring on the interior of the nut. As soon as this cross-bar is raised out of the opening 7i; it is swung around so as to permit the inner surface thereof to rest on the solid outer portion of the nut, and the nut can then be loosened and taken off and the wheel removed.

In securing the wheel to the vehicle after once in position the nut is screwed home or onto the axle, spindle, or box, and when in the desired position the cross-bar Z is turned until the same strikes the transverse opening, when the said'bar, by reason of the springoperated pin, will readily drop into such opening` and prevent the running off of the wheel or the unscrewing of the nut.

While I have described the use of this device in connection with an axle or spindle, it is clearly obvious that when desired the axle could be made of the ordinary contour and that a sleeve or axle-box could be employed to embrace one end thereof and be so formed as to receive the peculiar nut-lock herein set forth.

The i-nvention is very simple in construction and composed of a minimum number of parts, and by its use I am enabled to lock a wheel securely upon an axle.

It is evident that various slight changes might be made in the forms, constructions, and arrangement of the several parts herein described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Hence I do not wish to limit myself to the exact construction but consider myself entitled herein set forth,

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to all such changes as fall within the spirit spring located between said collar and headed and scope of my invention. end and a cross-har secured to said pin and Having thus fully described my invention, adapted to be raised out of or lowered into the I 5 what I claim as new, and desire to secure by transverse openings of the nut and axle for 5 Letters Patent of the United States, isthe purpose set forth.y

Ahub-securing device consisting of the axle In testimony that I claim the foregoing as provided with the screw-threaded reduced my own I affix iny signature in presence of end, the outer recess or groove, a nut having two Witnesses.

a transverse opening in its outer surface to ALEXANDER C. MORRIS. lo register with said recess, a pin extending Witnesses:

through said nut having the inner headed JOHN W. J. LU GG,

end, a collar formed within said nut end, a l ROBERT J. SUMMERS. 

